A DAM BURSTS
POWER OF FLOODED RIVER MILLION LOGS WASHED AWAY. QUEBEC'TOWNS UNDER WATER. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Received 10.20 a.m. to-day. OiU'AWA. May 29. A mess ago .from Chicoutimi, Quebec, states that a big dam, after hoteling back a million logs for ten day® against heavy .pressure from flood waters from Lake Saint John, gave way on Tuesday, and lumber worth, a million and a half dollars .are sweeping down Port.it de Charge River. The flood situation at Robervmle is extremely grave, and .several Quebec, towns are enti-naPy under water and cutoff from the outside world.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 30 May 1928, Page 7
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101A DAM BURSTS Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 30 May 1928, Page 7
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